The 10 most interesting neighborhood scoops from February 5, 2026
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Pro Tech Electrical Service is working for landlord WMB 2 LLC to add a new 600-amp, 120/208V electrical service at 7900 Shelbyville Rd in Oxmoor Mall (Stop 6) for incoming tenant Shake Shack. The landlord’s crew will install a new CT cabinet and disconnect while Shake Shack’s contractor handles the panel and wiring; Pro Tech will also install data cabling conduit with a pull string, with the project value estimated at $25,000.
Firm Foundation Properties LLC has an emergency property-maintenance demolition in the works at 2511 W Chestnut St after a severe fire left the three-story wood-frame building with a collapsing second floor and roof. The structure is open, unstable and considered in imminent danger of collapse; an emergency demo affidavit was filed, utilities were notified, and the owner plans to demolish the unsafe building.
National Environmental Contracting, Inc. will remove presumed asbestos-containing insulation from the top half of tank B131 in the Poly #4 area at 4111 Bells Ln (a Zeon Chemicals LP facility) so new insulation can be installed; no other materials will be disturbed. The asbestos abatement is scheduled for Feb. 23–Mar. 2, 2026, covers about 100 sq ft of friable thermal insulation, and will be done under full containment with negative pressure machines, HEPA vacuuming, PPE, and disposal at WM – Outer Loop Landfill; NEC previously removed the tank’s bottom half under an earlier permit.
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